Their restricted abilities are refreshed every week.

Only Little Chestnut Hat walked slowly and came to the front of the boy.

Baichuan Qing felt that his whole body was restrained by a not-so-strong energy and he couldn't help but feel horrified - the compensation I thought of was not the same as the compensation you thought of!

Xiaoli, you, an honest and kind guy, have visited some websites that you shouldn’t have visited and learned new things to keep up with the times!

Oguruma's time stop is always activated too suddenly, so that Shirakawa Haru has no time to react or countermeasures.

——It is simply that the thoughts in my mind are ten thousand times more than the words I say.

Shirakawa Haru was thinking about whether he should find some time to help Oguruma with psychological counseling and let her say what was in her heart.

But fortunately... the entry above her head that showed time standing still for a period of time would disappear in one day.

I hope it won't be updated to a more important entry...

He could see that the little chestnut hat took his hands with both of hers and placed them on top of her head.

Immediately afterwards, Oguruma disappeared from sight, and Shirakawa Haru felt that he was being hugged tightly, with such strength that it seemed as if the hug was going to rub him into his body.

In the still world, he could hear the soft whisper of Little Chestnut:

"Haru-kun, I don't want to lose again."

The sun was hot, just as hot as Oguruma's body.

——This was Shirakawa Haru's last feeling when time stood still.

"Have you decided what you want?"

As if he didn't notice, Shirakawa Haru asked this after seeing Oguruma was silent for a long time.

"——Then please, Sun-kun, train me more strictly in the coming time."

Oguruma replied with a faint smile, extending his fist towards him.

"Don't forget to eat and sleep well so you can train well, Xiaoli."

"Well, of course."

The two of them bumped fists, and the youthful aura and light emanating from them blinded Pochi-chan who was observing secretly.

"—just looking at it makes my corpse warm its teeth!"

After retreating back into the tree stump, Pochi-chan opened her phone and looked at the page where she had not sent a single message to Shirakawa Haru since she added her on Line.

Listening to General Goto's roar and encouragement in her heart, Pochi-chan only felt more lost.

A girl in pink sportswear huddled in the shade of a tree.

She couldn't help but wonder: "Do I deserve such a colorful youth?"

For a marginalized person like me, I would actually be satisfied to play a cheerleader holding pom-poms behind the male and female protagonists in a campus youth drama.

"—No, you have super powers that only exist in comics, Goto! Go grab him! You are the heroine of this world, without a doubt!"

Another voice in my heart roared like this.

"That's not right."

Pochi-chan said sullenly, "Besides, I am happy just to understand and look at Shirakawa-kun. Since I already have happiness, why should I destroy other people's happiness?"

She said to herself earnestly, "My mother told me that people should know how to be content."

"—So you're going to watch Shirakawa-kun get close to other women, fall in love with them, and snatch away five, or even ten, of the happiness that originally belonged to you?"

General Goto's voice seemed to gradually become distorted, carrying a certain allure of temptation: "Or do you prefer to wait until they have achieved their goal before seizing them... and thus obtain the pleasure ten or a hundred times greater than normal intercourse?"

"Ah~ Goto-san, so you are this kind of person..."

"No, no!"

Pochi-chan shook her head fiercely, trying to shut down the chaotic voice in her heart, but the more she tried to do so, the louder and more resounding the voice in her heart became.

Unable to bear it any longer, she covered her ears and ran away from behind the tree stump.

"Ok?"

Shirakawa Haru looked at the pink figure running at a speed comparable to that of a 100-meter sprinter and touched his chin in confusion.

——It turns out that Pochi-chan’s motor skills are actually pretty good.

"Um...Shirakawa-kun, will you go to RING tomorrow afternoon?"

Shirakawa Haru only felt his body sink, and then Takamatsu Deng's voice came from behind.

Chapter 22 Me and My Animal Friends

Xiao Meideng asked me where I was going tomorrow?

RING?

What is this?

Shirakawa Haru was a little stunned.

Because after reading and replying to Aine's message yesterday, he just threw his phone aside and ignored it, so until now Shirakawa Haru has not seen what Aine sent him.

——These days he has focused all his attention on looking up information on various modifiers and making training plans. In addition, he has been staying up late for too long, so his memory naturally deteriorates.

"Sorry, Deng...I didn't hear you clearly. Can you say it again?"

Shirakawa Haru gave a polite smile, which made Gao Songdeng, who was lowering his head slightly, open his mouth and squeak for a while.

Then, as if he had broken through some psychological barrier, he repeated it in a lower voice.

Taking advantage of this time, Shirakawa Haru searched in his mind what "RING" was.

——A huge building in Ikebukuro that focuses on the music business, with performance halls, cafes, recording studios, etc.

In addition, since Takamatsu Touma was the lead singer that Aine wanted to recruit into the band, Shirakawa Haru immediately understood what was going on.

——People are asking themselves whether they should go or not!

In other words, he didn't have enough trust in the pink-haired Aine, and at the same time, if he didn't go, she probably wouldn't go either.

But before he finished reading Aine's firsthand information, Shirakawa Haru still had something else in mind:

"If nothing unexpected happens, I will go."

If a sentence contains uncertain suffixes such as "if" and "should", then it has added a powerful risk-avoidance and blame-shifting attribute to the sentence.

Under such circumstances, any "accident" is possible.

If Xiangzi were here, he would probably see through it and say something like "If you don't want to go, you don't have to go."

——But Takamatsu Deng showed a slightly expectant expression.

I don’t know if she didn’t think too much about it, or if Shirakawa Haru’s credibility on her side was simply too high, but after hearing this guarantee that was not really a guarantee, the girl nodded repeatedly.

"I'll go, too."

After saying this, Gao Songdeng, who originally wanted to continue sharing the stones she had just collected with Shirakawa Haru, was stunned and focused her eyes on Shirakawa Haru's wrist.

Hmm...? Why does Xiao Meideng keep looking at me?

Because of her living habits in her previous life, Shirakawa Haru would subconsciously give nicknames to her acquaintances based on their characteristics.

For example, "Teacher Daxiang", "Pink Hair", "Little Closed Lights" and so on...

Of course, it would never be said without the other person's consent.

"Shirakawa-kun!"

Gao Songdeng suddenly grabbed his wrist, and then saw the wounds on his wrist and forearm that were exposed to the air and had not yet healed.

She yelled nervously, "You're hurt!"

Shirakawa Haru blinked, remembering this because the scratches on the glass hadn't fully healed yet.

——But because the injury was too minor, Shirakawa Haru didn't pay much attention to it after disinfecting it yesterday. Anyway, with his healing ability, it would heal in two days.

When he was a child practicing various skills, he suffered injuries ten or a hundred times more serious than this.

"Ah, that's okay..."

"I, I'll go find you a band-aid!"

As he said this, Takamatsu Deng's single-threaded thinking was occupied by the task of "finding a Band-Aid", and he simply left Shirakawa Haru alone there, not caring that it was still physical education class and he couldn't leave casually.

——No need.

Before he could finish these words, Takamatsu Deng had already run very far away - if he caught her back, not only would his kindness be wasted, but it would also trigger his low-pressure autism button.

After guessing that Xiao Meideng was probably going to the astronomy department, Shirakawa Haru walked to the physical education teacher in the distance and showed him the wound.

Then he received a shocked look from the physical education teacher who was also the instructor of the kendo club.

He shouted, "Baichuan! Did you go and dismantle the group alone again yesterday? This time it was their parent organization, the Dragon Tiger Society! I'm about to witness the emergence of a legend of one against a hundred!"

"No, it's just a scratch from the glass."

"You guy, are you still trying to quibble?"

The teacher, whose bamboo sword had been knocked out of his hand by Shirakawa Haru in three moves, cast an eager look at him: "It's been a long time since I heard the new version of your group, Shirakawa. Hurry and serve it up!"

"——Please spare me, teacher. Takamatsu-san is still waiting for me to put a band-aid on his wound."

Shirakawa Haru raised his hands to show surrender, and this sentence made the teacher's face change suddenly.

He narrowed his eyes, and after examining it for a long time, he sighed with deep emotion, "It turns out that even a blockhead like you can finally come to his senses one day!"

After saying that, he patted Baichuan Qing's shoulder heavily, and then pushed him away: "Okay! You don't have to attend this physical education class, go quickly, Baichuan!"

"Uh... ok."

Although he didn't quite understand what the teacher understood, Shirakawa Haru still took the opportunity to slip away quickly.

"Youth is so good!"

The middle-aged teacher who has been single till now sighed.

……

It took two or three minutes to arrive at the astronomy club's activity room, which didn't even have air conditioning. Shirakawa Haru poked his head out and saw Takamatsu Deng fiddling with something with his head down.

"lamp?"

Before Shirakawa Haru could finish his words, his eyes were attracted by the small iron box in Takamatsu Deng's hand.

There were all kinds of band-aids lying in it, penguins, pandas, butterflies...

——Me and my animal friends?

Not only am I as sensitive as small animals, but I also like small animals very much.

But that's normal. Given Xiao Meideng's personality, these cute little animals are actually easier to get along with than humans.

After entering the astronomy department, Shirakawa Haru began to use what he had learned from observing the animal world in two lifetimes.

——After all, we must try our best to improve Gao Xiao Meideng’s favor and ensure that she can successfully join the band with several other unknown masters.

"This band-aid is amazing." Shirakawa Haru walked over and carefully picked it up after confirming that there was no rejection in the light's sight. "This looks like it belongs to the crested penguin family."

"Ah! This is the Northern Rockhopper Penguin!" Gao Songdeng suddenly became excited and pointed at the big-headed penguin's eyes and said, "It's called the Northern Rockhopper because it's good at jumping from one rock to another and lives in the Subantarctic!"

——No, this can also trigger a smooth little combo?

Shirakawa Haru listened to this detailed introduction that was like Wikipedia, and looked at Takamatsu Deng who kept introducing the various penguin species to him, with a smile that was neither awkward nor polite.

At the same time, I racked my brains to reply.

"I remember it was an Adelie penguin. It's very beautiful."

"It's called the Chinstrap Penguin! Look..."

Time passed quickly as Xiao Meideng Encyclopedia explained. Five minutes later, not only Takamatsu Deng, who was in charge of the explanation, but even Shirakawa Haru, who had been standing still, was sweating profusely.

But Gao Songdeng became more and more excited as he spoke, completely unaware that sweat was dripping from his jawline onto his thin gymnastics suit.

Looking at it this way, Xiao Meideng is also very interesting...

Chapter 23 "From now on, please call me, Shirakawa Haru."

It seems that once Gao Songdeng enters a state of concentration on doing something, it is difficult for him to get out of it without external interference.